I've been a longtime owner of REX Essentials, and then I picked up REX4 Texture Direct during a sale.
Initially I thought REX4 was a "new" product meant to replace the older REX Essentials - using newer technology, better compatibility with P3D v2 etc. So I thought I was being clever to jump on the new product and abandon the "legacy" REX Essentials.
However I'm seeing that REX Essentials is still being updated. While it's good that you support your older products too, as a customer it leaves me a bit confused as to the advantages of "upgrading" to REX4, and whether it's really an upgrade at all or just a parallel product line. Then Soft Clouds was released, which is a third product with the same goal (providing a more realistic environment) that makes me further question my decision to get REX4 (which I purchased in order to get the latest technology).
So a couple of questions:
-Do you consider REX4 a replacement/upgrade over REX Essentials or an parallel product line?
-If the latter, when is REX4 the best choice and who should choose REX Essentials instead?
-Is REX Essentials w/O still considered the "premium" product? It's more expensive than the other two and the download size is also bigger.
-Will support and updates continue for all three products?

Hi, I recently posted a topic, about my specs and help, to see if my computer is worthy enough of being able to run REX. It got moved to hardware topics,
but I don't have permission to view it apparently...
I know I need REX verification. But the whole point of the topic was asking if my PC is good enough to run it, BEFORE I buy it. It got a reply, from a Admin, can it just be posted onto this topic, so I can read your answer?
Or could I just have quick access so I can read the reply to my topic?
Thanks in advance.

When I look at the amount of of forum posts with zero replies yet a lot of views it makes me wonder why no one answers posts. Do I have to go somewhere else for simple questions to be answered? Or do I have have to ask for a refund as I just bought this like four days ago?
Tim, you out there?
Not all of us celebrate Easter but I respect those that do but come on, a little help here to some very simple questions would be nice.

Hello all, I just thought I would start this thread and ask a very simple question. How is a development of Direct Weather going along.
I noticed in another topic in this form the developer blog, was dated the 14th of October of last year. And we're now in march of this year 2015, so I thought I would ask for the update.
I recently purchased Direct Texture & Soft Clouds combo pack. So now I'm in the market for a weather engine.
I played around with active sky on their trial, but I did not commit to it because I would like to know how direct weather is going to work and the fact that it was $49.00 USD, which in my opinion, is too expensive. But what do I know, right!
What got me back into flight simulator, was without a doubt the steam sale for FSX for $9.99.
Personally, if you want to get more people in the community, and grow the community. That was a smart move to do. We live in a world of free to play, buy to play and other business models. And the low buy in in my opinion is the best way to go, to grow your business & community in the long run. I am a casual flight Sim'er so please don't hate me for my noobness.
Cheers
Dionsol
CS E-465
Southern California Mojave Desert
PS: Does REX Game Studios have a G+ account, just curious So I can follow their adventures. (I don't use facebook sorry)

Hi again,
I had posted regarding launching soft clouds together with Rex4 Direct but you had requested my order numbers. Below my signature, you will find my order numbers for both products so that you may follow-up with me.
Thank you.
Eric Desnoyers
SoftClouds: Order #634991 (FSPilotshop)
Rex4 Direct: Order #261727 (Flightsimstore.com)
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I have no access to official members forum. I already registered my order number and where I purchased the product and was already given approval. I had accessto Rex4 direct forum for one or two days and decided to change my password and now when i log into REX forum and try to access the official Rex4 direct form it tells me I do not have permission. I do we resolve this problem?
Troy

Hi everybody,
I've just ordered REX 4 Textures Direct, i've donwloaded it from Flightsim.store.
When the dowload finished all the files are here but impossible for me to run the Setup.Exe (normal or as adminsitrator)!
Thank's for your help.
I run with Windows 7 64 bits.
PS : sorry for my bad english.
LoÃ¯c
Normandy
FRANCE

Hi all,
Just completed a major upgrade on my PC, I really want the best weather program available, I love the look of REX4 but I'm confused!,
Can I use REX4 as stand alone or do I need to get REX e+od first?, also I heard that REX4 doesn't have it's own weather engine, is that correct?.
Thanks
Robbie

Just a quickie does soft clouds just install into REX 4 or is it a separate product, I do like the look of this from screenshots ive seen it looks fantastic I will have to wait and buy next payday.
cheers
Iain

Hi
trying to buy the soft cloud pack i can't create an account.
it only has the United states in the country list.
as I live in the uk i can't create an address as part of the buying process .
any ideas
steve

could someone kindly help out a 70 + year old man and sp3 specifically the lat/long setting on the weather surface region do I want smaller region (1x1) or larger say 7x7 for ex. and the weather grid interpolation setting on or off and what exactly does it do if Im reading it correctly (?) it seems the weather surface is distance related and the refresh rate is time related do they work together? ihave read the manuel just don t understand it thet well thanks very much

Hello sir/mam,
I tried to buy rights for prepar3d so I can use my REX essential overdrive. My rights number is 031935. However when I updated it to version 3.7 and restarted my REX, now i have to buy rights for P3d again. Can someone help me here

Hi,
I think I won my bet THANK YOU A LOT REX Team!
No problem with the update.
And piece on the cake, it seems to me that I got some different weather in Antarctica!
Need a lot of time to explore the functions now

I've had REX Essential/Plus Overdrive since last year which i bought from fspilotshop (CD Version) due to my internet connection being very low in my area. Recently the program has been crashing on me alot so i decided to uninstall the program and start again. Every time i copy the files from the CD, and begin the main installation the same error comes up all the time called "cirrus_few03.imagedata_60" that cannot be found in "Cab12.cab" due to an CD or network error. I checked the "Cab12.cab" unextracted file and its there but named like this? "cirrus_few03.imagedata_60<--". Does it means its there but corrupted?
Hope you can help me with this problem, as ive just purchased RE4 Texture Direct.
Jim!
*Resolved* 28/11/2014 17:38
Nevermind its been fixed, i manually got the unextracted file from the CD and replaced it with the one that has current error. I would recommend to keep this topic here, just in case if anyone has issues with the CD versions. Just get the cab file from the CD *copy* and * replace* with the file that has the error.